Visa Urges Japanese Government
To Accept Credit-Card Payments

By

Phred Dvorak Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated April 17, 2002 8:19 a.m. ET

TOKYO -- Visa International Asia Pacific Ltd. is urging the Japanese government to accept payments by credit card, as part of a big push to increase credit-card acceptance in the world's second-largest economy.

Visa and its member card companies in Japan also are talking to Japanese businesses and industry groups to get credit cards more widely accepted for payments in areas such as highway tolls, telecommunications, medical care and...